Enivrez-vous, Charles Baudelaire, choix du Club des Poetes. Ouïr. Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works. William Blake - Auguries of Innocence. Art prints | poetry | cine | homeblake images To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons Shudders hell thro' all its regions. A dog starv'd at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state. A horse misused upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Baudelaire : L'homme et la mer. William Blake: The Fly. Robert Burns Grace. Tennyson A Farewell. Yeats An Irish Airman. Robert Herrick Delight in Disorder. Emily Dickinson Nature Rarer Uses Yellow. Robert Frost Revelation. Emily Dickinson Pain Has an Element of Blank. William Blake Preludium to America.
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc, When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode: His food she brought in iron baskets, his drink in cups of iron: Crown'd with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood; A quiver with its burning stores, a bow like that of night, When pestilence is shot from heaven: no other arms she need!
Invulnerable though naked, save where clouds roll round her loins Their awful folds in the dark air: silent she stood as night; For never from her iron tongue could voice or sound arise, But dumb till that dread day when Orc assay'd his fierce embrace. Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy, The hairy shoulders rend the links; free are the wrists of fire; Round the terrific loins he seiz'd the panting, struggling womb; It joy'd: she put aside her clouds and smiled her first-born smile, As when a black cloud shews its lightnings to the silent deep. Soon as she saw the terrible boy, then burst the virgin cry:
Thomas Hardy: The Convergence of the Twain.